There has been a longstanding series of "wishes" along these lines. I think the consensus arrived at in the past has been for: - storing the rules, criteria and other steps involved in arriving at the set of people in a named group as a macro - adding a "Refresh" control to cause the macro to be re-executed The term "dynamic" with its implications overstates the objective and there is concern that automatic "refreshing" with every change in the database could very easily cause an adverse performance hit, especially on larger databases. Thus a user-controlled, manual refresh is the necessary and sufficient solution. Tom On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Dan Wych via <[email protected] > wrote: > > While the ability to repeat a search might be helpful, I absolutely do > not > want a "dynamic" named group which would change without my involvement. > Dan > > On 1/12/2015 8:53 AM, Ted Meikle via wrote: > > I am excited that some attention was paid to Named Groups in RM7. > > However, unless I am missing something, there is a feature that could > make them much more elegant and useful. > > Currently, all named groups are static. > > For example, assume I create a new group, then click Mark Group/Select > People by Data Group, then create a search for First Name equals Joe, > and then name the group People Named Joe. > > Afterwards, if a add a new person named Joe, the Data Group will not > include him, because it is static. > > Moreover, if I go back to Edit that group, it does not save the search I > used to create the group in the first place, so I cannot easily update > the Group without re-creating the search. Instead, it shows the last > search I did. > > Some uses of Named Groups created by searches need to remain static; > some only work if they automatically update to include new persons who > meet the criteria of the search. > > Examples of where a dynamic Named Group would be useful: > > A group of all people color-coded a certain color. > A group of all people matched to FamilySearch persons. > > It would be wonderful if one could specify with a checkbox whether a > Named Group created by a search should by Dynamic or Static. If Static, > it would behave as Named Groups now do (except it would save the search > used). If Dynamic, it would save the search criteria, and automatically > rerun the search when the Named Group is opened, showing all people who > currently meet the criteria. > > Or, at least, if the above is not determined to be worth the development > effort, change the current static Named Groups so that if a group is > created by a search, the search is saved with the Named Group so the > group can easily be updated without having to re-create the search. > > > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: [1] > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > [2]http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: [3]http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: [4] > http://blog.rootsmagi > c.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [5]ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-reque > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject a > nd the body of the message > > References > > 1. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > 2. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > 3. http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ > 4. http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > 5. mailto:[email protected] > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >